Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses an overview of the underwriting methods and techniques used with individually issued accident and health insurance including elimination periods, underwriting limits and claims costs. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4

Description: This paper derives exact expressions for the ultimate ruin probability and establishes the effect of correlation on ruin probability using the Wiener-Hopf factorization.

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The discussion identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss: records and accounting of the varied types of Group Accident and Sickness coverage practices of group insurance policyholders with respect to the continuation of coverage on their retired employees, for life and other group coverages and with respect to small [under 50 lives] groups, types of benefits available, and underwriting, administrative, and marketing issues.